Menopause Matters Forum
Menopause Discussion => Other Health Discussion => Topic started by: Machair on April 16, 2015, 10:26:26 AM
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Does anyone else hate going for eye tests? I have to go every year as I also wear contacts. I think it is very stressful especially that dot test where you have to say how many you can see each time on a screen. Feel worse about it since Meno - anyone else dislike it?
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Do you mean the Field Test ?
I'm a contact lens wearer but my eyes are really playing up lately and I've been referred
I failed my field test few weeks ago and had to do another (I passed) but that week not knowing if they were going to contact DVLA was worrying
On the whole though I don't find opticians visit stressful, unlike doctors and dentist !
Xx
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Only time I've had field test done is at eye clinic. Normally at optician's I get the one where you have to look at a hot air balloon, the puff test & then actual eye test. Mind you I only wear glasses for reading, so maybe that's why.
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I dread going in case I need new glasses, which is can't afford!
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I think it is very stressful especially that dot test where you have to say how many you can see each time on a screen. Feel worse about it since Meno - anyone else dislike it?
Hate it - loathe it.
I'me a lens wearer as well. My optician takes the eye tests very seriously as my mum had glaucoma.
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That's the only time I've had the Field Test, but I think they were concerned because of this sudden double vision I am getting so under hospital as well now
Xx
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I get all the tests at the opticians as I have had eye problems and they like to keep an eye on me, as it were!
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I had my 2 year exam. today. Instead of the puffy to check pressure the Optician put local drops into both eyes then moved a piece of equipment closer and closer until it touch my eye :o ……… :-\
Did you have that ever?
My eyes feel gritty now :(. Have to have long distance as well as new readers (and nope, not going for bifocals ;-) ) ;)
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Hubby gets his done yearly. They put drops in his eyes and then send him away for a while until his pupils are fully dilated. He looks so weird at that point.
They take a lot of time with him because he is diabetic.
Honeybun
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I didn't have to wait which I thought was strange :-\ - I prefer the puffer test.
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I had my 2 year exam. today. Instead of the puffy to check pressure the Optician put local drops into both eyes then moved a piece of equipment closer and closer until it touch my eye :o ……… :-\
Did you have that ever?
Yep - Much prefer it to the air puffer.
Have it checked every year as Mum had Glaucoma.
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I am partially sighted having beein born with very severe short sight so have spent my life with people peering into my eyes ;D
I don't like the puffer but then again have had the other one as well and not happy having something touching my eyeball either ( can't win can they!).
The worst test I had was to make sure my retina was attached all the way round and the chair I was on was tipped back so my head was lower than my body and then he pushed under my eyeballs all the way round with a prodder. It wasn't painful as such but felt very very awful. He apologised at how weird a test it is.
I have cataracts in both eyes and the gel inside my eyes has collapsed and gone cloudy, they theoretically can operate on me but there is big risk they will blind me. The retinal surgeon I see said in a really upbeat voice that if I decide to risk the operation then the good news is he can do both a vitrectomy and cataratct surgery and lens implant under local anaethetic, he got a very horrified face in return with the comment " is it compulsory to be awake". When he had stopped laughing at my expression he said not if you don't want to be - thats me then out for the count one day.
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Eyes are precious. I think care has come on in leaps and bounds in recent years!
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Yes my retinal surgeons tells me to wait as long as I can as the risks get less as time goes on for me.
Mind you I keep moving he goal posts, when I could drive I always said when I could not I would risk it and then when I had to stop driving it was when I can't read, I now have a kindle as i cannot read normal print etc etc. Its amazing how we adapt to changes and get used to them except when i fall off kerbs because I cannot see them >:(
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I'm very short sighted and wear contact lenses, however the ones I've been wearing have been discontinued and my current optician has incredibly limited knowledge / is totally useless when it comes to contacts so I'll be looking for another one in a few months time when my stock of lenses gets low.
Over the years I've got used to the dye in the eye but still hate the puffer and tend to flinch at the wrong time meaning it has to be repeated :(
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I go to Boots for my Prescription to be made up. Trouble is I now get lots of 'reminders' for eye tests etc. ::)
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Does anyone wear bi-focals? Since fetching my new prescription for distance and readers, I've been putting both on to read/watch TV - probably looks funny but it works for me. Would bi-focals be appropriate?
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I dont like eye tests and really panicked recently when I was told I was being referred as my prescription had changed so much (still waiting to hear back on that one!).
However, I am so grateful to opticians - An optician discovered my mum's eye cancer in time to save her sight and also picked up my dad and mil's macular degeneration. A few years ago, both would be blind - but now, thanks to injections in their eyes every month, both can see. Sight is so precious.
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Yes CLKD bifocals or varifocals would be more appropriate ::)
I have varifocals.
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The difference being :-\
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Bifocals have the little line across the glasses separating the top,distance prescription,from the bottom,reading prescription and are cheaper than varifocals,which have no distinct line and gradually blend in the prescription,mine have top ,distance,middle ,pc work,and bottom for reading. ;)
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I've had varifocals for years now and find them great, if I had two pairs I think I would always be mislaying one or the other. I don't wear them to read in bed but for everything else they do the job fine. I had bifocals previously and they were ok as well, sometimes takes a few days to adjust if the prescription changes but otherwise no problems- they are a bit more expensive but as Briony says ,sight is so precious.
Thorntrees
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:thankyou: something to consider then. I would probably keep looking at the line across though :-\
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I wear varifocals and get on really well with them.
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No woozyness ……….. ?
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Nope :)
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That's good. Love my distance lenses :-*
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I wear varifocal contacts. :)
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The varifocals don't have an obvious line separating the lens so that isn't a problem and no wooziness for me either.
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Oh we are a Mine of Knowledge …….. I'll go and talk to Boots when next in town to find out more ;) However, I could never wear contacts ;D
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I'm with CKLD on the contacts - just the thought of them makes me queasy. I have varifocals (tried having 2 pairs a while ago but such a pain and then almost pitched down the stairs as had forgotten to swop them over when I went up and was wearing the readers not the "seeing" ones. Focus was all wrong)
If my prescription changes it takes me a little while to get used to them but other than that its great.
Don't mind the eye test except the puffer!!
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I went for a routine eye test on Saturday and was dreading it for the first time ever. The 'What if...' gremlin was on my shoulder >:(
I was also dreading the 'Your prescription has changed ...' as this would mean loads of money on a new pair of varifocals.
I needn't have worried as all the tests showed I have healthy eyes and the words 'your prescription has changed...' were followed up with 'you don't need varifocals any more, just a pair of reading glasses for the computer, reading, and close work'.
I could have kissed her!!!
When I was breaking the varifocals in, I felt a bit motion-sick and remember falling off a pavement when the edge wasn't quite where I expected it to be... I must have looked drunk ;D That said - once I got used to them, they were great.
I'm picking up two pairs of reading specs this Saturday - really bright, jazzy ones. Might as well look groovy while I'm knitting!
Galadriel x
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Thrilled to have the money still in my account - I have found a couple of ways to spend the savings ;)
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I need mine re tested and probably will need new varifocals but going to wait until we go Paphos at end of October as the opticians there are so much cheaper and don't charge for the eye tests. ;)